Writing Quotes

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.
Adele

Done, Again, Bitter

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
Virginia Woolf

Knew, Literature, Indeed

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
Quentin Tarantino

Try, Analytical

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino

Writer, Novels, Considered

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
Quentin Tarantino

Everything, Learned, Actor

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.
Haruki Murakami

Life, Today, Dream

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.
David Bowie

Money, Finance, Play

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse

History, Humanity, Words

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
Tennessee Williams

Working, Alive, Stop

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
J. K. Rowling

Brain, Strongly, Linked

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
Alex Haley

Good, Find, Tried

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
Isabel Allende

Freedom, Death, End

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud

Revision, Exquisite, Pleasures

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
Paul McCartney

Important, Nothing, Wrong

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Charles Caleb Colton

Real, Fine, Admiration

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck

Business, Book, Makes

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
W. H. Auden

Money, Art, Sad

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
Dolly Parton

Guitar, Old, Serious

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
J. K. Rowling

Business, Nothing, Sacrifice

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
J. K. Rowling

Children, Kids, Leave

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
J. K. Rowling

Movement, Appears, Stimulates

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
J. K. Rowling

Life, Write, Entire

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
Tom Stoppard

Small, Getting, Felt

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril Connolly

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. White

Work, Health, Bad

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Great, May, Learned

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'
David Bowie

Life, Spiritual, Give

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Theodor Adorno

Live, Place, Longer

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
Bill Watterson

Purpose, Ideas, Weak

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Lee Iacocca

Down, Happen, Making

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